This 3 Bedroom Semi occupies a generous corner plot in arguably one of Billericay's most individually convenient spots!
Well-presented throughout, it offers bright, spacious accommodation, a larger-than-average garden, garage and driveway, together with exciting potential to extend.
Decorated throughout in crisp white tones, it provides the perfect blank canvas for a new owner.
Features include a spacious open-plan Lounge/Diner with plantation shutters to the front window, TWO Daikin air conditioning units, a modern fitted kitchen, two excellent double bedrooms, a generous third bedroom, and a family bathroom.
Outside, the wide rear garden enjoys the benefits of the corner plot, while the garage and driveway provide off-road parking.
Planning permission has also been granted for substantial front, side and rear extensions, creating the potential for a stunning four-bedroom family home with a large open-plan kitchen/family room, utility room, snug, ground floor WC and master bedroom with ensuite.
The location is equally impressive. Grange Road's parade of shops, including Tesco Express, is literally across the road! While South Green Infant & Junior Schools are just a 3-4 minute walk away. St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School is also within easy walking distance, with Billericay High Street 0.9 mile away and excellent bus links close by.
For commuters, Billericay Station is easily reached, providing fast services to London Liverpool Street in around 35 minutes.
A fantastic opportunity for families, commuters and buyers looking to add value in a most convenient location.
The Accommodation in more detail:
HALL 11ft 6' x 5ft 8' (3.51m x 1.73m)
Lots of light pours in through the twin glazed panes in the front door and its adjacent side-light window.
A sizeable understairs cupboard houses the electrical consumer unit.
LOUNGE/DINER 20ft x 13ft 10" narrowing to 9ft 4" (6.10m x 4.22m > 2.84m)
Open plan to each other with the chimney breast/fireplace acting as a natural divider, so for the purposes of description we shall separate it into two different areas:
LOUNGE AREA - 13ft 10' x 11ft (4.22m x 3.35m)
The chimney breast remains, so whilst currently bricked up, the fireplace could potentially be reinstated.
The large front-facing window has been fitted with elegant plantation shutters and coupled with the double doors in the dining area, makes this a naturally lovely and bright room.
A 5ft 8' (1.73m) wide arch leads round to:
DINING AREA - 9ft 5' max x 9ft 4' (2.87m x 2.84m)
Mounted on the wall is a Daikin heat/cool Air Conditioner a real boon during the hot summer months, easily cooling the whole of the downstairs on its own.
It can also be operated from your mobile phone handy if you've been away for a few days, allowing you to activate it before arriving home.
A wide set of double doors opens out to the garden, and the dining area is also open plan through to the kitchen.
KITCHEN 10ft 3' x 8ft 5' (3.12m x 2.57m)
Fitted with a range of matt white units topped with black granite-effect worktops and incorporating a sleek black built-in Induction Hob with an Extractor Hood above and a matching black Multifunction Oven/Grill below.
There are spaces for a washing machine and fridge/freezer, and in the corner a built-in cupboard houses the gas and electricity meters.
The wide rear window and part-glazed side door flood the room with natural light, making this another notably light and bright room.
Stairs from Hall to 1st floor landing.
1st FLOOR LANDING
A large side window throws plenty of light over the stairwell and onto the landing itself, and looking up we see the loft hatch providing access to the loft space.
The built-in airing cupboard now houses an Ariston 'E-Combi Evo' combination boiler.
MASTER BEDROOM 14ft x 9ft (4.27m x 2.74m)
A lovely, large rear-facing double bedroom with built-in wardrobes featuring mirror-fronted sliding doors (and a handy double power socket just inside the right-hand one).
This room also the house's second Daikin Air Conditioner.
BEDROOM TWO 11ft 1" x 9ft 3" (3.38m x 2.82m)
Another very generously sized double bedroom, this one front facing.
BEDROOM THREE 8ft 3" x 7ft 5" (2.51m x 2.26m)
A front-facing single bedroom with a surprisingly large cupboard over the stair bulkhead, measuring 4ft 3' wide x 2ft 7' deep x 5ft 2' high (1.30m x 0.79m x 1.57m).
BATHROOM 8ft 10' x 5ft 6' (2.69m x 1.68m)
A generously sized bathroom with a shower over the bath and a side-facing obscure-glazed window providing natural light.
DRIVE AND GARAGE
On the 'return frontage' is the 'Own Drive' to Garage.
GARAGE 16ft 6' x 8ft (5.03m x 2.44m)
With a fairly new up-and-over door, lighting/power via a separate garage consumer unit, and a courtesy door from the garden.
GARDEN 51ft narrowing to 34ft x 37ft wide (15.54m > 10.36m x 11.28m wide)
Set on a corner plot, it therefore enjoys a wider-than-average garden, which has also provided the opportunity to extend the house to the side, with planning permission having just been obtained.
FRONT GARDEN
Currently laid to lawn, but with the option of being paved over (subject to local authority approval) to provide additional parking, in addition to the current drive in front of the garage on the return frontage.
PLANNING PERMISSION
Planning permission has just been granted for a single-storey rear extension, a two-storey side extension, a single-storey front extension, plus solar panels to the roof.
This would turn it into a four bedroom property with a new Utility Room, main Living Room, Second Reception 'Snug Room' (or 5th Bedroom), ground floor WC and a large open plan kitchen/dining/family room with bifolds. Upstairs the new master bedroom would also have its own private Ensuite Shower Room.
Plans available on Basildon Councils Website or please contact the office.
Council Tax
Basildon Council, Band D
Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.
Billericay is a popular, historic market town just 30 miles from London.
The market at the top of Crown Road disappeared years ago and Billericay nowadays is more well-known as an excellent commuter town, with excellent rail links to the City (35 minutes by train), very good schools and a charming High Street, part of which is a conservation area.
It also has great access to the key main roads of the M25, A12 and A127.
The town lies on the edge of rural Essex, which makes it a very desirable place to live. This coupled with the City access goes some way to explain the high levels of Londoners we see looking to move here every year.
Since I moved here in 1973 and started as an estate agent in the mid 1990's, I have seen the town grow to where it is now, with some 14,000-15,000 homes and a population of over 40,000.
The Billericay you see today is economically and physically a thriving and attractive place to live and work. There are many open green spaces including the 40 acre Lake Meadows Park, a must in summer, and they throw a pretty impressive Fireworks Night too.
Norsey Woods is a great place for a walk or to exercise your dogs...or the kids! It dates back to the Bronze Age and covers about 165 acres with a visitor centre for the educational visits it has too.
I remember camping there as a cub scout back in the day and both Nick and myself have enjoyed many a afternoon there over the years with our families.
The High Street must be one of the prettiest in the county and dates back to Roman times. The shape we see now certainly hasn't changed much for over 500 years, our office itself is part of one of the 25 old coaching inns the town has seen over the years!
With well over 100 shops including some well known names and some boutique locally owned ones, the High Street also has some great pubs, bars and restaurants. The Chequers is probably the most popular, most people we know rate it as the best pub in town, with newer bars like Harrys Bar, Bar Zero and the Blue Boar, also very sought after, growing venues on friday and saturday nights.
There are too many great restaurants to name, suffice to say you don't need to travel out of Billericay to have a fantastic night out and there's a taxi rank by the station to get you home if you want to leave the car on the drive.
Waitrose is our local main supermarket with there also a very good Co-op over on Queens Park. Smaller supermarkets over in South Green, Sunnymede and along Stock Road also provide a super local service in their areas.
Billericay Christmas Market is a very popular annual event which sees the High Street completely shut to traffic for the day and then filled with stalls selling anything and everything Christmasy!
All the local schools, both Primary and Secondary have good OFSTED reports and there is a good choice of both State and Private. Please feel free to contact our office for more details although the OFSTED website is the ideal first port of call of course.
A BIT OF HISTORY
Billericay has an facinating history, much of which can be researched in our local museum, the Cater Museum on the High Street.
Billericay was first recorded as Byllerica in 1291 with notable events including a Peasants Revolt ending up in Norsey Woods in 1381 and some of Billericay residents, including Christopher Martin, the ship's victualler, sailing with the Pilgrim Fathers to the 'New World' of America on the Mayflower in 1620 - hence the many representartions of the Mayflower ship in numerous local businesses and the Mayflower High School.
In 1916 Billericay became famous as a result of a Zeppelin airship crashing in flames on the outskirts of the town, down what is now Greens Farm Lane.
A union workhouse was built in 1840 which later, together with additional later built buildings, became St. Andrew's Hospital in the 1930s. The regional plastic surgery and rehabilitation unit was opened here the same year I moved to Billericay, 1973. Many a local will still refer the estate there now to me, as 'one of the houses on the old Burns Unit', although it is in fact Stockfield Manor now.
Only the original workhouse building, including the chapel, and the main gatehouse, now survive, converted now into Grey Lady Place, a residential development of luxury apartments.
The railway came in 1889 and opened up opportunities for landowners to sell plots to Londoners looking to move out of 'The Smoke' into a cleaner rural environment. Both myself and Nick have sold many an old 'plot land' home over the years for redevelopment. A few still remain on the edge of Norsey Woods down Break Egg Hill.
With the housing shortage created by the war time bombing of London, pressure to build was great and the new town of Basildon was given the green light. The 'Green Belt' stopped expansion and the blurring of Basildon and Billericay, hence why lot of the Billericay housing estates were built on abandoned farmland around the town centre and Great Burstead/South Green, where permission was more easily granted.
